Wind gusts, blowing at more than 40 miles per hour, caused problems in the high country on Wednesday -- toppling trees and crushing a car in Truckee.

The pine tree came crashing down shortly after 6 a.m. onto a blue 2014 Jeep Cherokee parked in a driveway on Zermatt Drive.

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"We were lucky because we always wondered which way they'd fall you know -- if they were going to fall over,” next door neighbor Carolin Doran said. “And, now we know.”

The wind-damaged tree fell onto a ski instructor's car, smashing the rear window and causing a blowout of the left rear tire. Fortunately, no one was injured, but the incident got Jack Doran wondering about another problem tree he had previously removed.

"We took it down and though, okay, we've taken care of the problem," Jack Doran said. "And then I called Lebowski, who owns this house and I said, 'I think we took down the wrong tree.'"

Meanwhile in Grass Valley, the winds were calm Wednesday afternoon after early morning gusts caused eight to 10 traffic incidents, the California Highway Patrol said."It's been coming in gusts," CHP officer Greg Tassone said. "So, we'll have periods -- say an hour or more -- where we're having no significant wind and then suddenly there's quite a bit of wind moving through the area. We're getting lots of calls along with that."A wind advisory is now in effect for the Grass Valley area. The CHP is urging drivers to slow down and be on the lookout for falling trees.